" He is in good company; consider, for instance, this dismissal of de Soto's ideas from Annelise Riles's profound and original book Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets: Contrary to De Soto's simplistic claim that the very existence of registered property rights produces clarity and certainty about the delineation of powers and obligations (and hence that the only necessary reform of the financial markets is the creation of an… [read post]

McCoy, University of Connecticut School of Law (currently on leave at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) Katharina Pistor, Columbia Law School Annelise Riles, Cornell University Law School Peter Conti-Brown, Stanford Law School Moderator: Anna Gelpern, American University Washington College of Law This panel is part of a project to engage the legal academy in sustained theoretical and policy contributions to the regulation of financial institutions. [read post]

Academic freedom -- United States ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND THE LAW: A COMPARATIVE STUDY / ERIC BARENDT Oxford; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010 K3755 .B37 2010 See Catalog Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- United States AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW AND POLICY / WILLIAM M. [read post]